Filmmaker Tom Harper on Flying High with The Aeronauts’ Felicity Jones and Eddie Redmayne Filmmaker Tom Harper is having quite a year, first with Wild Rose, about a Glasgow ex-con nursing a dream of becoming a Nashville country star, and now his new picture…
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Trey Edwards Shults’ emotional Waves begins with a swirling camera capturing a moment ripped out of life, or time, in the romance of a south Florida teen couple who, for a brief moment, have what seems like about everything. They are young, smart, popular and…
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It’s sometimes referred to as a once-in-a-generation talent. And it would not be an overstatement to say that nineteen-year-old New Zealand actress Thomasin Mckenzie, currently on screens in Taika Waititi’s jaunty wartime satire Jojo Rabbit and the gritty, Henry V monarchy drama The King,…
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She was always going to do exactly what she wanted. At 15, British youth Tracy Edwards unceremoniously left an unhappy Wales home to start a new life in the Greek port of Piraeus, quickly finding work as a stewardess on a yacht cruising the…
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You’ve got to hand it to Mexican-Canadian filmmaker Gigi Saul Guerrero. What the emerging talent has accomplished in her new Blumhouse picture Culture Shock, premiering July 4 on Hulu’s Into the Dark, took considerable brass, not to mention a keen understanding of genre as…
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It would be difficult to overestimate the impact that Richard Dreyfuss has had on American culture, his sort of whip-smart, articulate neuroses and acute attention to, as he puts it, inner heroics, a staple of his now canonized portraits in a series of seminal…
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Rusty Schwimmer is likely the most prolific actress ever to come out of Chicago, her long career in Hollywood movies, indie films and what seems like every television show ever broadcast a testament to the ubiquitous star’s boundless imagination in a slew of high-profile…
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In Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma, the Oscar-winning filmmaker looks back at his childhood circa 1971 Mexico City with a reverence for the women who raised, and formed, him. It’s part memory, part nostalgia, part Mexican history and most of all a testament to the unsung,…
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In 1987, Colorado senator and surefire 1988 Democratic presidential nominee Gary Hart’s bright political future was handily extinguished by allegations of extramarital impropriety with Donna Rice—we’ve all seen the famous photo—and Hart went from popular man of the people to political pariah in a…
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In a society driven by competition with value placed on perfection, what puts someone at the top of the game? Is it genetics? Psychological composition? Nature or nurture? How do these relate to getting the most out of oneself mentally and physically? What quality…
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